US1726446A - Clothes prop - Google Patents

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Aug. 27, 1929# A. M. MGKINNEY cLQTHEs PROP FmeFeb. 8, 1928 ATTORNEY Patented Aug. 27, 1929.

f UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

ANNAM. MCKINNEY, OF BURGETTSTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTHES PROP.

Application led February 8, `1928. Serial No. 252,836.

This invention relates to clothes line props, an object being to provide a device which may be readily attached to the end of a pole and engage with a line to prevent accidental separation `of the pole land line, yet

be hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the appended claim.

ln the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation partly in section showing the improved hook attached to the end of a pole.

Figure 2 is a fragmentary elevation of the hook and the adjacent end of the pole.

Figure 3 is a section taken substantially on the line 3-3 of Figure 1.

Figure 4 is an edge view partly in section, showing the spring tongue.

Referring to the drawings in detail where in like characters of reference denote correspending parts, the reference character 10 indicates a pole while the line engaging device Y which constitutes the present'invention is indicated at 11. This device `comprises a body 12 which is formed at one end with a flat base 13. A shank 14 extends from the base and terminates in a bill 15, so as to provide p a hook.

forn'ied integral with rthc body is a'screw 16 which provides means for removably securing the hook to the pole 10, the flat base 13 rtbutting the end ofthe pole.

The body 12 is provided with a substantially L-shaped recess, a portion 17 of which extends transversely of the base, while a portion 18 extends longitudinally of the yshould the tongue 20 lose its body-from the base. 'By reference to Figure 3 of the drawings it will be seen that the portion 17 of the recess includes a substantially circular portion which is arranged concentric with the screw 16 and which is adapted to receive an enlarged substantially` circular portion 19 provided at one end of a spring tongue 20. The portion 19 is provided with an opening 21 for the passage of the screw 16 so that this'end ofthe tongue may lie within the portion 17 of the recess andbe clamped between the body of the hook and the adjacentr end of the pole.y he spring tongue will thus be secured by the same means provided for securing the hook to the pole, the portion 18 of the recess acting to prevent rotation of the tongue whose Vother end normally engages the bill 15. Y

The construction shown and described eliminates the use of additional fastening means for securing the spring tongue to the body of the hookaiso that-cost of assembling will be materially reduced. n addition, resiliency, it maybe temporarily removed ,and reshaped, or. a newtongue may be readily substituted The invention is susceptible of various changes in its form, proportions and minor `details of construction and the right is herein reserved to make such changes as proper'- so i ly fall within the scope of the appended n claim. 4

Having described the invention what is claimed is e vIn a clothes line prop, a pole, a hook detachably secured thereto comprising a body having a flat base' at one end thereof to abut the end of the pole and having a substantially L-shaped recess which extends transversely of the base and vertically of the body from the base, a fastening device carried by and eXtending'fr-om the baseinto the Extending from the base and preferablyv pole, an L-shaped resilient tongue seated in the recess and'provided with an opening in one end for the passage of the fastening device and having its other en d detachably engaged' with the bill of the hook.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature.

ANNA M. MCKINNEY.

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